Formality of the little N-disks operad / Pascal Lambrechts, Ismar Volić.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambrechts, Pascal, 1964- author.

Volić, Ismar, 1973- author.

Series:

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; no. 1079.

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 0065-9266 ; number 1079

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homotopy theory.

Operads.

Loop spaces.

Physical Description:

vii, 116 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2014]

Summary:

"The little N-disks operad, B, along with its variants, is an important tool in homotopy theory. It is defined in terms of configurations of disjoint N-dimensional disks inside the standard unit disk in R [superscript]N and it was initially conceived for detecting and understanding N-fold loop spaces. Its many uses now stretch across a variety of disciplines including topology, algebra, and mathematical physics. In this paper, we develop the details of Kontsevich's proof of the formality of little N-disks operad over the field of real numbers. More precisely, one can consider the singular chains C [subscript]*(B;R) on B as well as the singular homology H [subscript]*(B;R) of B. These two objects are operads in the category of chain complexes. The formality then states that there is a zig-zag of quasi-isomorphisms connecting these two operads. The formality also in some sense holds in the category of commutative differential graded algebras. We additionally prove a relative version of the formality for the inclusion of the little m-disks operad in the little N-disks operad when N e 2m + 1. The formality of the little N-disks operad has already had many important applications. For example, it was used in a solution of the Deligne Conjecture, in Tamarkin's proof of Kontsevich's deformation quantization conjecture, and in the work of Arone, Lambrechts, Turchin, and Volić on determining the rational homotopy type of spaces of smooth embeddings of a manifold in a large euclidean space, such as the space of knots in R [superscript]N, N e 4"--Page v.

Contents:

Notation, linear orders, weak partitions, and operads

CDGA models for operads

Real homotopy theory of semi-algebraic sets

The Fulton-MacPherson operad

The CDGAs of admissible diagrams

Cooperad structure on the spaces of (admissible) diagrams

Equivalence of the cooperads D and H(C)

The Kontsevich configuration space integrals

Proofs of the formality theorems.

Notes:

"Volume 230, number 1079 (first of 5 numbers), July 2014."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821892121

0821892126

OCLC:

875999573